Long story short, I don’t know that I consider Biden a pragmatic alternative at this point.
I get you, and you’re not wrong with the rest of what you wrote. The R’s have had a coherent game plan since Nixon and executed on it well enough (and had enough lucky accidents) to engineer exactly this kind of election.
The choice is whether or not the US continues as a representative democracy. This time it’s no hyperbole; it’s a truly binary decision for the future. And I’m afraid unless the D’s grow a real backbone, every election for the foreseeable future is going to be a response to an existential threat.
But the R’s cannot win. On this we can all agree.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m already planning on their win. The historical trends point that way. Of course they won’t call themselves fascist. Their political PR people will come up with a better name, but they’re going to win, whether it’s Desantis or Trump.
And people are going to blame us DemSocs for it and not themselves.
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Totally agree about Obama’s well intentioned but ultimately disastrous attempt to reach across the aisle. He had two miraculous years to change it all, and blew it on trying to reconcile two utterly incompatible views of what America should be. Noble, but in the end foolish.
If you are right, it won’t really matter who takes the blame. Part of me thinks you are right, but the better part of me is still fighting.